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1945 - 0426.PDF
246 WAR IN. THE AIR The strength of the Allied tank forces in the West has surprised friends and foes alike; and the enterprising General Patton, of the U.S. 3rd Army, has created consternation among the enemy by the use he has been making of his armoured forces. Dr. Gobbels' Admission F)R. GOBBELS in a recent broad- •^ cast has admitte'd that "the enemy air terror has reached inhuman proportions and it can now hardly be borne." Does he remember the day when Hitler arrogantly threatened, "We shall raze their cities to the ground " t Of course, the Doctor went on to threaten more intense use of V bombs. We are accustomed to the ingenious Doctor's threats, and know that nothing the Germans can now do in the air will make any difference to our war effort, or avert the coming defeat of Germany. On the other hand, we do not expect the objections of the German civil population to the Allied bombing to hasten the surrender of Germany. That may be effected by the results of the bombing on the German war effort, and particularly by the attacks on communications and oil; but not, we believe, by the trials of the civilian population. What those trials may do is to make future generations of Germans very unwilling to back a Government which wants to start another war. It should be re- membered that in the last world war the greatest hardships which the Ger- man population had to endure were a result of the British naval blockade. They were certainly very severe ; but m •** PRIORITY LIST : A photograph taken from a Wellington dropping supplies tofBritish prisoners in an E.L.A.S. prison camp at Kifisikhori. Beaufighters, Halifaxes ani even Spitfires lent a hand at this work. they did not meet the eyes of the German man or woman in the street. Bombs, even though they are carefully confined to railway stations and fac- tories, make a personal appeal to the ordinary citizen ; and it may well be that the memory of them may be passed down from mothers to daughters for generations yet to come.- At least it is to be hoped that it will. Gobbels' threat of increased attacks by rocket bombs on Britain need not make us unduly anxious. The speci- ally trained squadrons of Spitfires are keeping up their attacks on the launch- ing places and assembly points of SUPER-SHOOTING : The incredible results of a night attack by R.A.F. BomberCommand on the M telland Canal, near Gravenhorst. It is amazing that such concentration and accuracy can be achieved on so slender a target at night. these weapons in occupied Holland, and the railways which bring up the component parts from the factories are constantly being cut. In addition, the advance of General Eisenhower's armies may soon lead to the liberation of Holland, and then it will no longer be possible to launch the bombs from there. It may be possible to launch them from farther afield and still hit the island of Great Britain; but the longer the range the less likely is any accurate aiming. In any case, these bombs will not retard the advance of the Allies on either the West or the East Front. Even if we have to wait, as General Eisenhower suggested, until the British and American armies meet the Russians somewhere in the centre of Germany, the final issue is not in doubt—nor can the swashbuckling broadcasts of Nazi leaders persuade the ordinary German citizen or soldier that a German victory is still a pos- sibility. In Burma COME day the story of air supply ^ in Burma will be told in full. It will be an amazing story. The Allied armies in that country have now; advanced so far that the only possible way of keeping them supplied is by air. It sounds an impossible feat, but, somehow or other, it is being done. The work of the Dakotas is remark- able, and lately we have heard some- thing of the work of the little Stinson Sentinel aircraft. They carry stafi officers and commanders about the country, and also evacuate numbers 1 wounded. Is practically no interference 4 operations from the Our air supremacy is abso- enemy can do to help his time he iVfcl-
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